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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 29, 2011 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
The Agenda Project
The Agenda Project
stated on May 17, 2011 an advertisement:
The Paul Ryan budget proposal would leave the country "without Medicare."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 16, 2011 an interview with Bloomberg television:
"In the first year of the Obama administration, more jobs were created in the private sector than in the eight years of the Bush administration."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 17, 2011
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on May 12, 2011 an interview on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor":
The Massachusetts health care plan is "wildly unpopular" among state residents.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a presidential campaign announcement video:
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a campaign video:
During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on May 10, 2011 a speech in Austin, Texas:
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on May 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
The Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs during this recession."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2011
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Doris Kearns Goodwin
stated on May 8, 2011 an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press":
During the Eisenhower Administration, "not a single soldier … died in combat."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 10, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:
Says stories about his birth certificate drowned out media coverage of the Republican and White House budget plans the week of April 11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on April 25, 2011 an interview with ABC news:
President Barack Obama "took exactly none of his own deficit reduction commission’s ideas. Not one."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 28, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on April 16, 2011 a speech in Iowa:
China holds 26 percent of the U.S. debt.
False
By Robert Farley • April 22, 2011
Bill Maher
Bill Maher
stated on April 15, 2011 an episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
Under a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, people on Medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 20, 2011
Joe Walsh
Joe Walsh
stated on April 17, 2011 an interview on "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Every time we've cut taxes, revenues have gone up, the economy has grown."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on April 13, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
"The top 1 percent of income-earners pay about 40 percent of all taxes into the federal government."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2011
Peter DeFazio
Peter DeFazio
stated on April 13, 2011 a House floor speech:
"Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Patrick Kennedy • April 15, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show:
President Obama has spent over $2 million in legal fees defending lawsuits about his birth certificate.
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 11, 2011
Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl
stated on April 8, 2011 a Senate floor speech:
Abortion services are "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2011
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2011 a "Today Show" interview:
Says President Obama's "grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth."
False
By Robert Farley • April 7, 2011
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